What is
R i t u a l a b u s e ?
What is ritual abuse, a few ways of looking at it...
Ritual abuse (ritualistic abuse) is when someone is being repeatedly, systematically abused in the name of an ideology, dogma, religion or other system of belief. The abuse itself may be in a physical manner, but also in an emotional, psychological, sexual or spiritual way. Or combined in different ways. Quite so often all of these ways of abusing people are used to control the victim.
This means that Ritual abuse is not only something Devil worshipers uses to manipulate the victim with, but it also includes many other forms of rituals. As a shelter for the rituals the offenders, cults, uses their ideology to justify their behavior.
It is quite often practiced in a religious context and in the form of cermons and cermonies, services to the object for the cult or ideology. The perpose is often to control the mind of the abused person, who not so seldom is a small child or a disabled adult.
Within most spiritual philosophies there are cermonials, but in is when someone is being used in that context that the ritual abuse occur.
Therefor it's very important to understand that the abuse is the part to blaim, not the ideology itself, because most philosophies in a religious context, may be used to abuse people with.
What is a ritual?
A ritual is something with a sybolic meaning. There are often many rituals in peoples everyday-life. It may be that you always do something a certain way so that it will bring you luck or it may be something you do officially together with many people, like when you go to Christian Church for the communion.
Rituals are common during some events, like during funerals, weddings, birthdays etc.
What is ritual abuse, generally speaking?
Usually, when people talk about ritual abuse (if they do) they mean abuse in a ritual context against children (or 'weak' adults or animals). Generally speaking you can say that many of the things happening arount the world is ritual abuse, -like militaryservices, wifemistreatment, racism etc.
...not so generally speaking...
Ritual abuse is, some people say, repeatedly, sadistical torture, within a group against small children.
...What kind of abuse is there?
As aldready said, the abuse may be both physical, emotional, mental, sexual and spiritual.
Physical, may be torture by laying hands on someone, electrical chocks or the victim may get locked in somewhere or forced to eat or drink stuff (drugs etc.)
Emotional, may be for example to put guilt on the victim (for example by making it believe that she/he has been the one to blaim for things that happen to herself/himself or someone else.
Spiritual, may be when someone are made to beleive that good is bad and vice versa or other kind of mindcontrol based spiritual abuse.
Sexual, may be sadistic sexual molestation, forcing someone to have sex with someone else or themselves, rape etc.
Eating
eating a part of your soul
like a lion eats his victim
in the flames
someone
shouts
loudly
like hoping for God
to listen
they laugh
roughly
licking the spiders of the walls
snowballs falling
swollowing the paint, the
the flames.
they laugh
Someone listens